Cell phone service stopped?

So since like 2am this morning, everybody has been getting between 0 and 1 bars of service. My friends, my family, even people in other towns. What's going on?

------------- classic network outage

Do they have to shut off the tower for maintenance or what?

------------- yes, do you even know or comprend the amount of wattage that runs through a typical cell tower?!?!?!??!!?!??!!?!?!??!?!?!?! Put it this way, if a deer broke in and chewed a wire, it wont have a mouth afterwards...

To send a message, I have to hold my phone up, and put my other hand above it cupped like a little dish to feng shui the signal or something. Kind of like how you can change radio signal by moving your arms and position. But why is this happening now?

---------- outages can be caused by bad storms, natural disasters, power fluxes in the grid, wild life, faulty nodes, etc etc etc etc....... or.... this is a known outage due to system maintanence.... 40% of your monthly bill goes to Tower UpKeep, just an FYI.

It's been 12 hours and still terrible service.

---------- cmplaining about it on Yahoo Answers wont solve anything.... call yoru carrier and report it............ since its been 12 hours, you iether had some terrible natural disaster, or no one in your home area has called your carrier yet, being morons, and thinking this is normal... omfg.. lmao... thats the common American for ya..... drink the kool-aid and go with the flow

No one will know for sure, because we do not know who your service provider is and where you live.

Try calling them, and asking.